Gunslinger Stratos Episode 6 [ Black and White ]

Man you know how our side is supposed to be the good guys? Well this episode we learn they’re the rich lucky side without a terrible world that’s been destroyed. My god, we learn so much about both worlds and about everything that I legitimately am just losing my mind as I watch this shit. Gunslinger Stratos is only about halfway done and already its sheer plot twists are making me lose it!

Kyoka of the white!world finds a passed out Tohru and instead of shooting him she finds him and they have a bonding experience. She explains that she’s sure if it was white!Tohru or even black!kyoka the two would have shot at each other immediately, but the show finally succeeds in showing chemistry between Kyoka and Tohru by showing their other selves getting along. I actually kind of ship it now that I see this episode.

What we learn about the white!world is that the same crisis from 100 years ago happened. In either world 100 years ago wars and natural disasters destroyed Japan. In black!world corporations sponsored rebuildings and so life is heavily constricted but advanced. In white!world everything is broken down but people know more personal freedoms, essentially making the white!world more morally close to what we know ‘good’ to be.

It’s very interesting learning just how right the prediction is: both sides are innately good. White!Tohru is an asshole for his own reasons, namely that medicine is bad and therefore the enhancements that saved Remy at a young age resulted in him dying from illness in the white!world. The first time we actually see white!Tohru seem upset is when he realizes Remy is still alive in the black world.

Kyoka and Tohru talking really does show, though, the real implications of things. Tohru is only one tragedy away from becoming a hardened asshole and Kyoka is so connected to him it actually softens her to be forced to see him as a broken person. How can I root for either side now when it just seems so helpless?

When Tohru does eventually get sent back shit goes down as white!Tohru shoots at him and he fires back to avoid it, and the ricochet actually hits black!kyoka and this sends Remy into a rage. Remy goes berserker and uses an energy cube which actually causes him to. . .fucking turn to dust?! Shit. Then the time keeper puppeteer shows up just to say, “oh this is sooner than expected but it’ll work” and proceeds to fucking take the dust of Remy’s degradation and fucking make a sandstorm.

Alright, so theories here. The timekeepers make the future destruction happen with this power and were just plotting the entire time to make sure that happened. Maybe they are aliens who want to destroy the world or maybe they’re people from the future trying to destroy the world before time shifting happens? I’m assuming next episode we’ll find out but. . .holy moly.

This show is nothing if not laden with fucking twists. Not that it’s bad, it makes the show more interesting. This was actually one of the better episodes because it made me like Kyoka when honestly until now I’ve found her to be bland. Now well. . .I don’t. I’m interested to see the revelations and all I can honestly do is grip my seat and brace my butt for impact. Holy shit this show.

Oki